Word: tonal
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After the interval, Margaret, Codd Goldovsky, soprano, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society assisted in the performance of Mozart's Cantata (K. 108) . . . Mrs. Goldovsky sank in good style and with tonal warmth, although she was often overbalanced by the orchestra.--The Boston, Dally Globe, August...
...play it now than ever before, but its grammar has been so muddled by experimentation that it has become a language that everybody understands, but practically nobody can speak. The next few years will tell whether the broken pieces can be put together again or a new tonal language must be created from scratch...
...greatest of all time. Irritated at being continually asked whether they were related, he once bought a cap labeled "No." To Artur Rubinstein are dedicated the two toughest keyboard workouts of all time: 1) Stravinsky's "Sonata" from his ballet score Petrouchka; 2) Rudepoema, a ferocious tonal portrait of Rubinstein by Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, whom the pianist helped launch. Rubinstein's tremendous digital attack once wrecked a piano of the late Queen Victoria, at a performance for the present Duke of Windsor...
...earlier years, when he was building the Philadelphia Orchestra to one of the world's greatest, he made legitimate use of tonal opulence. But his baroque conception of sound has lately given NBC many a headache. Sooner than rebuild its woolly-sounding Studio 8-H to his specifications, NBC hired an old auditorium (Cosmopolitan Opera House), opened the broadcasts to a paying audience...
...that it is the last word in musical anarchy, but only that it represents in the language of notes what Finnegan's Wake does in the language of words, or Guernica in painting a dissolution of the old formal bases of art, the concept of tonality in music, of grammar in writing, and of pictorialism in the visual arts. And so to appreciate Pierrot, the listener's hearing apparatus must go through a similar process of dissolution, and come out on the other side of tonality, free from tonal inhibitions...